Mount McNaughton is a mountain in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.
Description Mount McNaughton is a summit located southeast of Mount Robson and west of the Continental Divide in Mount Robson Provincial Park. Precipitation runoff from the peak drains to the nearby Fraser River via McNaughton Creek, Moose River, and Grant Brook. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above McNaughton Creek in . The nearest higher summit is Derr Peak, to the east.
Geology The mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods and pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. The mountain is the type locality of the McNaughton Formation which is a thick sequence of bedded quartzose sandstone or quartzite deposited during the Cambrian period.McNaughton Formation, Weblex.canada.ca, Retrieved 2026-08-27
Etymology The mountain's toponym was applied by interprovincial boundary surveyors and officially adopted on 4 December 1923 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada to honor Margaret McNaughton (1856–1915), author of "Overland to Cariboo", an account of an 1862 overland journey by 150 pioneers and goldseekers to the Cariboo goldfields. She was married to Archibald McNaughton, one of the "Overlanders."
Climate Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount McNaughton is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Winter temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C.
See also Geography of British Columbia
References
External links Mount McNaughton: weather forecast Mount Robson Provincial Park—BC Parks